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POWER of BALANCE. Cate L. Gibson, Powerful Journey Consultants www.powerfuljourney.com. What are your Biggest Stressors?. What is your MAIN stressor?. Turn to the person beside you and tell them. XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX. BLUE GREEN YELLOW RED WHITE. MULTI-TASKING BUBBLE.
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POWERofBALANCE Cate L. Gibson, Powerful Journey Consultants www.powerfuljourney.com www.powerfuljourney.com
What are your Biggest Stressors? www.powerfuljourney.com
What is your MAIN stressor? www.powerfuljourney.com
Turn to the person beside you and tell them. www.powerfuljourney.com
XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX www.powerfuljourney.com
BLUE GREEN YELLOW RED WHITE www.powerfuljourney.com
MULTI-TASKING BUBBLE www.powerfuljourney.com
BUSY, BUSY, BUSY GOES THE MANTRA Just like a drug keeping us on a high of what we see as efficiency and fulfillment-power as we finger our beeping, ringing, wireless devices, cell phones, laptops, etc. www.powerfuljourney.com
What are the PAYOFFS of MULTI-TASKING? www.powerfuljourney.com
Feel important (Who needs God, when you are around?) • Feel valued • Avoidance • Procrastination • Denial • Self sabotage • Passive-aggressive response • We will get more accomplished www.powerfuljourney.com
Side effects of multi-tasking? www.powerfuljourney.com
Neuroscience is crystal clear www.powerfuljourney.com
Brain can only handle doing ONE thing at a time • MT is actually glorified task switching • It may look efficient to some, but research shows that is comes with a price. www.powerfuljourney.com
Inefficient: shifting between tasks can cost 40% of your productive time www.powerfuljourney.com
Excessive busyness DISCONNECTS US FROM OUR CREATOR Miss meaningful connections from our higher source www.powerfuljourney.com
Unhealthy: it can cause headaches and stomach aches www.powerfuljourney.com
Office workers across the country reported: • 28% of their time dealing with interruptions and transitions related with multi-tasking www.powerfuljourney.com
Next generation hardest hit since Multi-tasking is a way of life • How will they carry out tasks that require hours or even days of work on end with an attention span of a few minutes www.powerfuljourney.com
Multi-tasking makes you OLDER • + the level of stress-related hormones (cortisol/adrenaline) • Wears down your system through biochemical friction www.powerfuljourney.com
Study- Institute for the Future • Fortune 1,000 companies employees send and receive 178 messages a day • Interrupted at least three times/hour www.powerfuljourney.com
Multi-tasking Deprives you of FLOW www.powerfuljourney.com
BRAIN takes 20 minutes to reach maximum focusing power and you’re interrupted every 20 minutes www.powerfuljourney.com
Sad Truth You will never reach your Peak Capacity www.powerfuljourney.com
State of FLOW Where time flies by and things get done right the first time • Imagine if an airplane had to stop and pick up an extra passenger each time it got halfway down the runway: think the pilot might get a little antsy after a day or two? www.powerfuljourney.com
Steps to overcome Multi-tasking www.powerfuljourney.com
JUST DO IT!!! • Quit COLD turkey • Commit to doing one thing at a time www.powerfuljourney.com
Create prioritized lists www.powerfuljourney.com
Know your peak energy times www.powerfuljourney.com
Take a Hike! Take walking breaks away from your desk Eat your lunch in a park, by a lake, at home, meet up with friends www.powerfuljourney.com
Avoid doing major reports/difficult clients/meetings prior, day of or after a FULL Moon. www.powerfuljourney.com
Put first things first (tackle biggest task first) • A, B, C piles www.powerfuljourney.com
Avoid interruptions Paperwork from home, come to work early, stay late, only accept emergency calls (define what that means to secretary), set boundaries www.powerfuljourney.com
Check your emails 3 times per day www.powerfuljourney.com
Send out auto-reply; • (in order to serve you better, I will be responding to emails at …. if this is an emergency please contact me at… www.powerfuljourney.com
Use a memory enhancer • Palm Pilot/ notepad to record information • ONE less thing for our brain to have to remember www.powerfuljourney.com
Serenity Prayer www.powerfuljourney.com
Practice Mindfulness • Be fully in the moment with: • Yourself • Colleagues • Clients • Family • Spouse • pet www.powerfuljourney.com
Signs of Multi-Tasking Frenzy Behavior • One task, another comes in to your mind • Concentration for long periods is off • Memory loss • Forget what you wanted to say or do • Sleep problems • Trouble relaxing • Are you really listening to others? • What did she just say www.powerfuljourney.com
Acceptable Multi-tasking • Drinking coffee/tea while working • Glancing at your agenda www.powerfuljourney.com
Writing in your agenda/notebook • Listening to music and reading the paper www.powerfuljourney.com
Holding hands during a movie • Walking and chewing gum www.powerfuljourney.com
Turn to same person you shared your biggest problem with www.powerfuljourney.com
Share the ONE thing you will do from your list that will feed the SOLUTION • Date you will start • Who will your support person be at home/work? www.powerfuljourney.com
Life Style Quiz www.powerfuljourney.com